This week in 1958: Elvis Presleys Jailhouse Rock entered the UK - TopicsExpress



          

This week in 1958: Elvis Presleys Jailhouse Rock entered the UK charts at #1, the first single ever to do so; it was Elvis second British chart topper, holding the top spot for three weeks (in the US, it had gone to #1 for seven weeks the previous fall & went on to sell over 4 million copies); written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, the song was released as a single to coincide with the release of the Elvis motion picture, Jailhouse Rock; Rolling Stone ranked it #57 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time…7
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:01:17 +0000

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